Rathnaseer

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnaseer, from 610 m² to 283,203 m² (28.32 ha, 69.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rathnaseer in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, new entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater system and percolation area, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660825

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  (a) an existing livestock building with cubicles. Planning Permission for: (b) Construction of an extension to existing livestock building. (c) Construction of a livestock building with cubicles and underground slurry storage tank. (d) Construction of a new silage pit and effluent storage tank and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660404

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house with attached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560217

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  a detached garage and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24355

• 20 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of a side extension to an existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460612

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  (a) the construction of a machinery shed and (b) retention on an existing calf shed & workshop (as constructed) including all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24191

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  the construction of an easy feed dairy unit consisting of cubicles and slatted slurry storage including all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21269

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  a replacement dwelling house, improved site entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system. Change of use of existing dwelling to a domestic garage storage building and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20743

• 8 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20603

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathnaseer.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-059001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 392) recorded the following details on Rathnaseer; ‘A merged parish. Rathnaseir, 1201-1204. Roger Waspayl granted lands between Rathgel and the great water of Del to Matthew, parson of Rathnesser, c. 1220 (B.B.L., p. 805); Rathnaser in termino Cragg, 1336; (Rental) Eccl. et capel pcentoris, 1418; Rathnasaor Cap., 1410; Ranasier, 1601; (Fiant, 6487). Fabric - An early church of well dressed gritstone, with nave and chancel, 37 feet [11.27m] by 23½ feet [7.2m] and 19 feet [5.8m] by 16½ feet [5m]. The west end is down; the east and south windows have round splay arches, each head being cut out of one stone, and the choir arch has fallen (O.S.L. 8, p. 180, T. O'Conor)'. Medieval nave and chancel church ruins described in 1840 as following; 'The old Church ruins here consist of a nave and choir, the former of which measures thirty seven feet [11.27m] by twenty three and a half feet [7.2m] and the latter nineteen feet two inches [5.8m] by sixteen and a half feet [5m]. The west gable has been entirely destroyed. On the east gable is a round topped window, built with chiselled brown stone and measuring seven and a half feet [2.2m] by four and a half feet [1.3m] inside. It is five feet [1.5m] from the round and measures three feet nine inches [1.14m] by four and a half inches [0.11m] at top and five and a half inches [14m] at bottom on the outside. The semi-circular arch at top is formed by one stone. At the distance of two feet nine inches [0.84m] from this gable, a window, now nearly defaced, is seen on the south side wall. It was built with the same kind of stone as the one on the east gable and is the same breadth with it on the inside and at the semi-circular arch on the outside, which still remain. The choir arch on the middle gable has been totally destroyed. Distant three feet [0.9m] from this gable on the south wall of the nave is another window which measures five feet [1.5m] by four feet ten inches [1.47m] and has a handsome round arch of brown stone on the inside. Only two stones of the same quality are to be seen outside. The side walls are about fourteen feet [4.25m] high; two feet eight inches [0.81m] thick and are built with lime stones of large size, irregularly laid. Cement was lime and sand mortar. The quoin stones of nave and choir are of the brown quality. There is a small graveyard (LI029-059002-) here much in use' (OSL, 61). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 January 2019

• LI029-059002 Graveyard
  Description

  Medieval church ruins (LI029-059001-) of Rathnaseer stand in centre of roughly rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 34m N-S x 54m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at S end of W wall. Described in 1840 as 'a small graveyard here much in use' (OSL, 61). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 January 2019

• LI029-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Oval area (30.5m N-S; 25.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m). Bank is overlain by field boundary N->S; a stream runs immediately outside field boundary with a farm passageway immediately beyond that again. Bank, best preserved at W, dips at N for c. 3m. There is a dump of earth and stones (H 0.55m) against inner bank face at E. Interior, under rough pasture, has uneven surface but generally slopes down to N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-061 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Rathnaseer Castle described by Salter (2004, 93) as follows; 'This Desmond tower measuring 8.6m by 7.2m has two storeys below a vault and one more above, all the levels being rather defaced. The SE corner contains a spiral staircase and the east wall contains two rooms over the entrance passage. A lost upper storey had a latrine in the NE corner. Rathnaser was granted to the Billingsleys in 1588. Here in 1599 the O'Neill Earl of Tyrone proclaimed James FitzGerald as Earl of Desmond'. Castle classified by Donnelly (1999, 25, 37) as a Type 1E tower house where 'the entrance at ground floor level leads into an entrance lobby. A doorway on one side of the entrance lobby leads into a mural recess. To the other side of the lobby is a doorway leading into a mural passage, which connects with a spiral staircase located in a corner of the building'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Thomas FitzGerald of Rathnaseer, an Irish Papist, was the owner of '60 Irish accres, wth a Castle' (Simington 1938, 303). See attached plan taken from Donnelly 1999. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2020

• LI029-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope below brow of low rise. Monument, depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (42.5m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.1m) SSW->W and NNW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.55m), best preserved NW->SE, lowers SSW->W. Along E and S sides bank straightened when incorporated into paddock; other sides of paddock have now been removed. Mature trees grow along top of bank W->SSW. Field boundary adjoins outer edge of fosse at NNW. Earth, stone and organic debris have been dumped close to external bank face W->NNW. Level interior is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (21.5m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 1.4m). Scarp has mature trees growing along its top. It dips at S for c. 2.5m. Interior surface is uneven, and under pasture which is heavily poached by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-155 Enclosure
  Description

  On poorly drained grassland. Outline of semi-circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 38m) defined by two scarps visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthophotos. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 June 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rathnaseer.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_597 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Rathnaseer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rathnaseer · Ráth na Saor

Area

1,955,380 m² (195.54 ha, 483.18 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Ballyallinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyallinan electoral division: 421 people in 151 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywilliam South, Ballywinterrourke, Ballywinterrourkewood, Dromard Demesne, Duckstown, Graigue, Moanwing

Placenames

Rathnaseer on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.